Circling the Green

• The Medical School has received grants from the Commonwealth Fund ($1 million) and the Mellon Foundation ($450,000) for curriculum development.

• Dean Esserman '79 has been named "Civilian of the Year" by New York's Transit Police Department for setting up an emergency health service unit for the city's subways.

• The Dartmouth Players production of "Blood Wedding" has won the New England Theater Conference's Moss Hart Award. The production of "Our Lan' " won first honorable mention.

• After Dartmouth debaters got off to a fast start in competition in Pennsylvania and Tennessee, two two-man teams went on to a University of California Invitational tournament. Steve Parker '79 of Freeport, Maine, was a member of the team that tied for third place. The other, including sophomore Thomas Isaacson of Lewiston, Maine, made the quarterfinals. So much for Down-East taciturnity.

• In a recent letter to The Dartmouth, Trustee Robert Kilmarx '50 suggested that "the best run of all" from the Skiway's new chairlift be called "Equal Access."

• Gyorgy Kepes, German-born painter, designer, and photographer, is the fall-term artist-in-residence.

• Len Jardine, John Ryan, Jeff Kemp, and Dave Shula all went out for freshman football this fall. Familiar names? Jardine's father once coached Brown, Ryan's quarterbacked the Cleveland Browns (and is now athletic director at Yale), Kemp's played quarterback for Buffalo and San Diego in the NFL, and Shula's coaches the Miami Dolphins.

• And in this month's Players production of "Subject to Fits" are three students whose fathers are top television executives with CBS, NBC, and ABC.